Sgt. Sam Guzzi was determined to prove Robert Zarinsky was Rosemary Calandriello's killer. However, attempts to lock up Zarinsky in the meantime fell short, as a story in the March 10, 1970, edition of the Red Bank Daily Register documented. Zarinsky was a "nucleus of many evils," the judge said, but the state had failed to establish that he was looking to kidnap young girls.